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As I was watching the rodeo parade Saturday morning, one of Jeannette Wallace’s marching supporters came over and spoke to one of the onlookers in a voice obviously meant for everyone, “Stephanie Richard teaches school and has two young children. How could she possibly have time to be a representative?”

I thought this kind of sexist campaigning had gone the way of wearing high heels and pearls while sweeping – but, obviously, not in the local Republican party.

In response to the letter from Glenn Walp in the Aug. 13 Monitor: Please stop, Mr. Walp.

You cloak yourself in the role of a righteous American but the noise I hear is the self-serving bleating of someone eager for the spotlight to promote his new book.

You previously besmirched thousands of true Americans with your extreme claims of thievery among the LANL workforce. Now you suggest that our terrorist adversaries will obtain the nuclear material to harm the United States from LANL.

Legacy. Hank Thoreau wrote that most of us “lead lives of quiet desperation.” Another writer, William Faulkner, I believe, said that some of us are driven to leave a mark on history. A “scratch on anonymity,” is how he phrased it, I think.